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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National MemorialInside the reconstructed Fort Caroline
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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial
History of Fort Caroline

Choose a link to learn more about the history of Fort Caroline:

Timucua Indians

A Foothold in Florida

Explorers and Settlers of la Caroline

Settlement and Conflict - Spain and France in Florida

The End of the Colony

Chronology of Fort Caroline

Overview of history, French translation - L'histoire du fort

"Fort Caroline" - Students explore one of the first French settlements of the New World. (YouTube - you are leaving the NPS website.)

Return to Fort Caroline Home.
Firing demonstration at Fort Caroline, including an arquebus  

Did You Know?
The arquebus, a firearm used in the 15th to 17th centuries and carried by the French soldiers at Fort Caroline, weighs over 30 pounds.
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